The Homely Homily: this week, the Most Reverend Edith Lee Lee
Created | Updated Dec 23, 2003
A little grace, a little charity, a lot of hope.
The Spiritual Health subcommittee of the Mental Health Committee of the Irritating Public Radio listener's review board has strongly suggested that
what souls still remain among the employees of Irritating Public Radio, Your Friends In The Air, and the listeners of all modern radio deserve a second chance and that
those who have lost their souls among the above mentioned deserve at least a taste of what they may be missing while reveling in their current state of uncertainty and all-night-partying with people too popular and intelligent to mix with the members of the board,
and so, in the spirit of that tortured state of mind, and to meet an obscure council's unreadable mandate for broadcasters to offer some small smidgen of enlightenment of a traditional nature, we inaugurate a new series of programmes, called "The Homely Homily".
This week: The Most Reverend Edith Lee Lee, Vicar Emeritus of Boothby Downlea Consolidated Parish, Unionized Regional Un-guilded Economic Community and Childcare Co-op
M. Rev. E.L.L.:
Thank you. Let us pray.
Most gracious heavenly Father...
We thank thee that thy Son, the most marvellous Jesus Christ, our Savior, our greatest example and hoped-for future ruler of the world to come, cautioned that we should not "babble as the heathen do", but get straight to the point, and neither swear by heaven or by earth or by the hairs on our heads, of which only you know the number, on each and every head on earth, now and forever, but to say either 'yes' or 'no', not engaging in the incantatory or exhortatory or pleadings that the heathen did in praying to their myriad and imaginary gods of wood and stone and clay, but getting straight to the point, because the Holy Spirit knows whatever we ask before we ask, and is quite possibly impatient with our imprecations and salutations because it has so many others to listen to that it must also get around to when it is done with us. We thank thee, also, most unique and unapproachable Lord,
for being given the opportunity to demonstrate such brevity and succintness to the waiting audience out there in radioland by this most respectful and worthwhile radio broadcaster. Let the willing and the unwilling alike be swayed and nourished spiritually by your spirit touching my word, if it be your will. Amen.
Now. Today is a very special day for me...
Narr: Time's up.
M. Rev. E.L.L.: What?
Narr: Time's up. No more. It's done.
M. Rev. E.L.L.: Yet, I haven't begun...
Narr: I thought you had. Good bye.
M. Rev. E.L.L.: But...
SFX: Organ Music: 22 sec. of E. Power Biggs on the 422 pipe quadruple manuals of the Earthbridge Boy's Centre's Eric P. Wendle Memorial organ, playing Bruckner's "Etude for Two Hands and a Foot"
